Last week I talked about that awful Mother Jones article blaming AFSCME for keeping prisons open in Illinois. I focused on the problems with the terminology. AFSCME strikes back against the article's inaccuracies about its own position. Once again, Mother Jones generally is not good...
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Given its namesake, Mother Jones is not exactly great on labor issues. I want to point out this problematic article by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella about AFSCME's opposition to.
From Change.org: On March 10, 2010, the Department of Justice opened a 60-day public comment period on national standards addressing sexual abuse in detention. Released last June by a bipartisan.
A rare bit of good sense at the Corner:It has been far too long in coming but, yesterday, the Federal Prison Rape Elimination commission released its report on elimination and prevention efforts regarding the biggest social problem nobody wants to talk about: prison rape.Anyone who...
While recognizing the general principle that prisoners, even in Afghanistan, ought to have some contact with the outside world, I have to question the wisdom of allowing this:This month's spectacular.
Good op-ed from Ezra.
Certainly no longer the big news of the day (if it ever was), but the Times editorial board got on the Prison Nation bandwagon today with a damn good editorial. The editorial touches on the issues of cost that I have been raising:Nationwide, the prison...
Awesome!Nationwide, the prison population grew by 25,000 last year, bringing it to almost 1.6 million. Another 723,000 people are in local jails. The number of American adults is about 230.